from video games, orchestral style. in which i get to play in the wind section. then we ll spin more tunes whilst we press some green vinyl that s hopefully not limited edition. and the record isn t the only thing skipping. look at that majestic covered gymnastic, well co ordinated. all right, stop it! i don t know about you, but this how i spent my time growing up. while lara was out with friends, i was exploring the universe in my cobra mk iii spacecraft. excuse me, i was a pretty good bmxer in my time. still can t ride an actual bike that well, but as long as i was steering with a keyboard i was a totally rad rider. official terminology, there, i m sure. definitely. 0k. look, gaming became really important to a whole generation in the 1980s, and although we re now no longer kids, many of us are still playing, which is why games can afford to be big budget blockbusters, and last year the uk games market was worth more than £7 billion. another result of the amount of time t
another result of the amount of time that video gaming has been around is the way it s permeated into other areas of our lives. yes, and equally it s started to draw on and draw in other parts of our culture and that includes music. prodigy s firestarter plays. the first time i realised that games decided to take their music scores seriously was when i played wipeout 2097 and realised that the accompanying soundtrack was not random plinky plock, it was firestarter by the prodigy. and in recent years it s been recognised as a major art form. well known hollywood composers like hans zimmer and michael giacchino have turned their hands to writing scores for games. and that s why this week videogame came to the uk s best known celebration of classical music, the proms, and pokemon took over the albert hall. so let s give it a go start from the top. i m at the bbc s maida vale studios for the final warehouses of the first ever gaming prom, called rehearsals of the first ever g
in your life, maybe you were with, what you are doing, when you hear a piece of music from a video game, it takes you right back to that point in your life that you were at when you were playing that game, and maybe who you are playing it with. so i m in my 30s, - growing up with megadrive was my first console, and if i hear sonic, . i immediately get put straight into that christmas where me| and my two sisters . got our first console. robert eames is a conductor and arranger who s worked on film scores and who s conducted previous proms based on experimental electronic music and sci fi movies. he s helped to curate the choise of music here, which is a journey through the 80s, through pokemon, final fantasy viii, shadow of the colossus, and all the way up to battlefield 2042. and in order to recreate the sounds and feelings of these games, some of which emerged through tiny, tinny speakers on the zx spectrum, he s augmented the traditional orchestral make up ever so slightly. you hav
start from the top. i m at the bbc s maida vale studios for the final warehouses of the first ever gaming prom, called rehearsals of the first ever gaming prom, called from 8 bit to infinity. it s a celebration of gaming music through the ages, all played by the royal philharmonic orchestra, a performance that should take many gamers back way back. so i m in my 305, growing up with. megadrive was my first console, and if i hear sonic, i immediately get put straight into that christmas where me and my two sisters got our first console. robert ames is a conductor and arranger who s worked on film scores and who s conducted previous proms based on experimental electronic music and sci fi movies.